Actually the folks at IBM gave us the answer. You need the TL01 patch which is listed only by Oracle as a requirement for Apps 11.5. Interesting. ______________________________________________________________ Dick Goulet / Capgemini North America P&C / East Business Unit Senior Oracle DBA / Hosting Office: 508.573.1978 / Mobile: 508.742.5795 / www.capgemini.com Fax: 508.229.2019 / Email: richard.goulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 45 Bartlett St. / Marlborough, MA 01752 Together: the Collaborative Business Experience ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________ From: David Barbour [mailto:david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:58 PM To: Goulet, Dick Cc: rjamya; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: AIX Listener error Don't know if this helps, but check SAP Note #608726. In part it states: "When AIX loads a shared library into memory the image of that library is kept in memory even if no process is using the library. If the on- disk copy of the library is altered then applications using that library still use the in-memory copy and not the updated disk copy. This is normal expected behaviour on AIX. In the case of applying an Oracle Patch Set then shutting down all the the instances , listeners and applications still leaves shared libraries in memory (eg: libjox9.a stays in memory). Application of the patchset updates the disk copy, but subsequent startup of an instance uses the in-memory library images (if they are still present). Hence the version banner can show the old release, and upgrade steps may fail as the instance is running an unsupported combination of libraries." Suggestion is to run slibclean before you patch, but with what you're experiencing, it may prove beneficial to run it now. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Goulet, Dick <richard.goulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Thanks, Saw that one already & relinked the software. Interesting note I just got. The listener worked fine when they installed the base release, but after installing all of the one off patches that SAP (Stupid A$$ Package) specified it is now failing. Would not be surprised that SAP provided them with either a buggy patch or massaged it in ways that Oracle doesn't know about. Must admit that the more of SP and SAP support that I see the less I respect them. ______________________________________________________________ Dick Goulet / Capgemini North America P&C / East Business Unit Senior Oracle DBA / Hosting Office: 508.573.1978 / Mobile: 508.742.5795 / www.capgemini.com Fax: 508.229.2019 / Email: richard.goulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 45 Bartlett St. / Marlborough, MA 01752 Together: the Collaborative Business Experience ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________ From: rjamya [mailto:rjamya@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:48 AM To: Goulet, Dick Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: AIX Listener error Dick, metalink note points to 557855.1, although for solaris it could very well be your issue. but note also says it can happen on any platform if your trace matches. Raj On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Goulet, Dick <richard.goulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: TNS-12537: TNS:connection closed TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error TNS-00507: Connection closed IBM/AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 29: Illegal seek